Imagine a world with civilizations built amongst the clouds, with cities in floating-gigantic steel structures, and people riding flying bikes; where the boundless sky is an ocean of stormy and hazardous acid-clouds; where the solid surface of the earth is full of mystery, of many unexplored possibilities and threats… That’s where we’ll be taking you to!You are invited to join a “fateful-accidental adventure” of an average working-class skybike rider, a young big-mouthed dreamer, basically a nobody named Rou, along with a nervy and bold female reporter named Mel, in their journey trailing a quest of a famous Skybike Rider named Griffen, who set out for a dangerous rescue mission.Find out all about it in this adventure story, in a fantasy tale that will take you from across the span of the sky of a world in the age of the skyfaring, toward the mysterious valleys of the land unknown, hidden beneath the acid clouds…

    The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin… At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps 12 years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!

    In a world where the average student is smarter than the teachers, how can the top students challenge their intellects? Why, by creating a detective service, of course! Meet the CLAMP School Detectives: Nokoru Imonoyama, the world's smartest kid, who can detect a woman in distress from 2 kilometers away; Suoh Takamura, a martial arts master who's cool as ice; Akira Ijyuin, detective by day, master thief by night. Wherever there's a young lady in distress, they'll be there. After all, when you're as smart as they are, you don't have to study.

    Berserk has conquered the worlds of manga and anime, and now comes the essential roadmap to the sprawling Berserk universe, exploring the characters, creatures, settings, and stories of Berserk's first 38 volumes.Profusely illustrated and including never-before-seen art (including an eight-page color section) and author notes by Kentaro Miura, the Official Guidebook is a comprehensive tour through the epic adventure, shocking horror, and graveyard humor that can be only Berserk!

    He always comes out on top no matter what he does, and Hikari is determined to do whatever it takes to beat this guy!At age 6 Hikari lost to Kei in an impromptu wrestling match. Now, at 15, Hikari joins "Special A," a group of the top seven students at a private academy, for the opportunity to trounce the guy who made her suffer her first defeat. This opens doors to the discovery of many new things for both of them....

    For some reason, Dio has a smoldering grudge against him and derives pleasure from seeing him suffer. But every man has his limits, as Dio finds out. This is the beginning of a long and hateful relationship!

    She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid—a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there’s much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends.

    Hayato Hyuga is the son of the prestigious Sushi Hyuga, and all he wants to do is be a pastry chef! It's love and leftovers in the Oikawa High School Cooking Deparment as the star-crossed gourmands do their best to reach their cuisine dreams.Hanayu knows that it will break her parents' hearts if she defects from the bakery to become a sushi chef. But if she marries into a sushi family, they'll have to understand her decision. Now she just has to get Hayato Hyuga interested in her, and what better way than to wow him with her cooking skills?!

    Several years later she finds herself being loved unconditionally by her senior coworker Shinobu. Day in and day out Shinobu fawns over her and drives her mad with his incessant loving. She feels at times like her body can take no more and is happy in her relationship with Shinobu until the day they decide to go back and visit his family home. What a shock when the person to come out and greet them is someone she never thought she’d ever see again, Rio. He was her very first boyfriend and the one she gave her innocence up to and is apparently… Shinobu’s little brother!? Rio, the one who thanked her for letting him take her virginity, appears in her dreams again and again. Although they broke up long ago, he continues to play around with her and make her body ache for him. Vol.1, 54 pages.

    Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan, they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight, she finds herself responding to beauty's call...Kiri's friend Kanako gives a present to one of the members of the Scissors Project. Her act of kindness is interpreted as a bribe to get a makeover, and they reject her out of hand for being too ugly. Kiri decides to help Kanako and give the boys a lesson in what true beauty is.

    Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan following and has earned status as one of the most widely acclaimed cartoonists of our time.Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine's iconic comic book series Optic Nerve and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13.